Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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